[…] the Sunday Telegraph 25 July 1999 that Blair tried to make Levy a Minister in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). This would have been a stunning coup by the Israelis but it was resisted by the Foreign Secretary, at the behest, presumably, of the traditionally pro-Arab FCO. Instead Levy became Blair’s personal envoy […]
[…] produced a book which is practically falling over itself to tell ever more astounding (and dreadful) tales of plots, “red’ and “black’ terror run by spooks, bombings, coup plans, assassinations and all the other goodies the Americans bought with the 100 million dollars or so they have spent there since the war. On second […]
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein, (Penguin 2007) X Films: true confessions of a radical filmmaker Alex Cox, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2008 Managing Britannia: Culture and Management in Modern Britain Robert Protherough and John Pick, imprint-academic.com, ISBN 978-097645539 Guns for Hire Tony Geraghty, Piatkus, 2008 A Peoples History of American Empire: a … Read more
Body of Secrets: How America’s NSA and Britain’s GCHQ Eavesdrop on the World James Bamford, London: Century, 2001, £20 Report on the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) Rapporteur: Gerhard Schmid European Parliament, 11 July 2001 [Online in Adobe Acrobat PDF Format ~1Mb] In … Read more
[…] to shame. He should also be given credit for quoting KGB files, in so doing discarding cold war paranoia (still prevalent if the official reaction to Costello’s coup is any guide) in the cause of sound scholarship. Despite all this it is difficult to avoid finishing the book without feeling disappointed. There are some […]
[…] establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt that would have established a Major General from the Marines, Smedley Butler, as a pro-business dictator. One of the most important and long-lasting legacies […]
[…] importance, likewise you should go for a substantial sum.’ Hounam said if Murrin acted to set up Oyston, he must be decisive: ‘It’s got to be the coup de grâce’ for Oyston. Murrin discussed his next meeting with Oyston in the taped conversation with Peter Hounam of the Sunday Times in which Hounam suggested […]
[…] big in the 1960s and after – this is an aspect of Lazards in New York we have not covered, though IT and T’s involvement in the coup in Chile is well known. (18) Ideological arguments are spouted to justify the large-scale plunder that is taking place, but monetarism is merely a facade behind […]
[…] the 1964 Republican presidential nomination. Lodge would drag his heels at reaching any accommodation with Vietnam’s President Diem, while the CIA’s Lucien Conein was busy organising the coup against him, just as the generals dragged their feet on troop withdrawal. With the CIA engineering ‘Quiet American’ style terrorism, bombing a Buddhist monastery in Hue […]
[…] Kirk died while we were still digesting the Watergate scandals, before the major Watergate-related disclosures about CIA dirty work and assassinations, and before the CIA- assisted “Kerr coup’ against Gough Whitlam in Australia. Even so, many people close to Kirk believed he was murdered. He was a very sick man, certainly, but he should […]
